Mirrors Windows And Sliding Glass Doors Bishop

Bishop coined the phrase windows mirrors and sliding glass doors to explain how children see themselves in books and how they can also learn about the lives of others through literature.

Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors bishop.

Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally appeared in perspectives. Rudine simms bishop coined the terms in her 1990 article mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally published in the ohio state university perspectives. Choosing and using books for the classroom. It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.

Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author. By rudine sims bishop the ohio state university. When lighting conditions are just right however a window can also be a mirror. In this video from reading rockets rudine sims bishop professor emerita from ohio state university speaks on mirrors windows and sliding doors as metaphors for diversity in children s ya literature.

The authors begin by examining the importance of the reader and the characters he or she meets. Books are sometimes windows offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined familiar or strange. Abstract this article seeks to complicate the understanding of bishop s 1990 metaphor of mirrors windows and sliding glass doors with particular emphasis on sliding glass doors and the emotional connections needed for readers to move through them. The stonewall book awards has categories for children and youth including non fiction 1 dr.

When there are enough books available that can act as both mirrors and windows for all our children they will see that we can celebrate both our differences and our similarities because together they are what make us all human. I wrote a piece maybe 1990 it was published which i called mirrors windows and sliding glass doors and i think that s really why we children need to see themselves reflected. These windows are also sliding glass doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. Choosing and using books for the classroom.

They knew what ncte member rudine sims bishop wisely wrote. We need diverse books because we need books in which children can find themselves see reflections of themselves. Rudine sims bishop published an essay about the importance of providing young readers with diverse books that reflect the multicultural nature of the world in which we live. These windows are also sliding glass doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author.